Walt Disney Pictures/Lucasfilm Han Solo’s slow, canonical beginnings (While the Falcon makes a canonical appearance in Revenge of the Sith, it would have been piloted by a yet-to-be-disclosed character.) As it stands, there’s nothing cementing the true origins of Han we pick up with his twenty-something self in Solo (played by Alden Ehrenreich) and blast off towards the original trilogy, with the The Force Awakens far off on the timeline.īut what happens to our favorite space smuggler as he ventures across the rewritten Expanded Universe? What does this legendary character’s legacy look like now? This is the story of Han Solo, a smuggler who’s been just about everywhere and seen just about everything. The universe is growing, again.Ĭhronologically, Han Solo’s new, Lucasfilm-approved timeline begins with Solo: A Star Wars Story. The official canon currently includes novels, novels and YA lit published by Del Rey, comic books published by Marvel Comics, video games published by Electronic Arts, and various animated entries like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels (which aired on television) and Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (a collection of shorts focusing on female Star Wars characters which aired on TV and online). Which raises the question: Forty-one years after his introduction, what is canon in the life of Han Solo?Īfter acquiring LucasFilm in 2012, Disney dropped most of the Star Wars “Expanded Universe” books, comics, and toy lore into the dianoga’s trash compactor, with plans to reboot the universe’s history through movies and new tie-in material. I’m sorry, but I like to know what’s true and what isn’t about my favorite characters. I won’t tell you how, but I will tell you that it drives me a little nutty in the process.

This week’s Solo: A Star Wars Story rewrites that history. George Lucas couldn’t have known that Han Solo’s golden dice would keep me up at night.Ī prop imbued with emotion in The Last Jedi, the dice were used in the game of “Corillian Spike” Sabacc in which Han won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian - or that’s what the Lucasfilm’s The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary established as canon.

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